Bristol is a good example of what is going on around the country. It has a Green Party controlled council that is overseeing environmental damage for development money.
Bristol Naturalist Society and Bristol Nature Network will not push or do anything because "its political". NO. It is about saving the environment and wildlife they are supposed to have a deep interest in!
We are seeing more and more green spaces in Bristol being marked for development.
A school wants a car park and txi space -dig up the green.
Council wants as much money as it can get so "unavoidably" chop down more mature trees and stick a few saplings in to replace them (not that they'll last long as they are vandal magnets.
Tenants dig up hedgerows and cut down council (therefore publicly owned) trees as they are 'desperate' for that driveway. Let them get away with it.
Territory with established badger setts and wildlife look very green and pretty -what developers are looking for. Sell it off for (non) affordable housing.
Bristol will get 5 new towns (suburbs) and guess where they will be built? One is already encroaching badger and otter land and by not responding Long Ashton Parish Council does not have to turn down any money. Bristol City Council under a very false Green Party council that daily breaks its own party's aims and promises do like wise -real examples of See No, Hear No, Speak No evil.
The odd moan does NOTHING.
Groups in Bristol should have united ten years ago but instead they operate individually and can be ignored or given the usual "Here is a lie you'll swallow until it is too late".
I can see parents in 20 years time speaking to their children: "There are no green spaces to visit or play on and not many trees or wildlife because mummy and daddy decided we would sit on our asses and watch TV and see if someone else would do anything. I know you are 8 but a 5 mile walk to the nearest park is good for you."
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